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"Michael Palin-- Monty Python star and television globetrotter-- brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the 'Great Southern Barrier'; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus's final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist-- when he wasn't shooting the local wildlife dead. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarctica's Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is an evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller"--

Shipwrecks --- Voyages and travels. --- Franklin, John, --- Travel. --- Erebus (Ship) --- Terror (Ship) --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Antarctica --- Northwest Passage --- Arctic regions --- Canada, Northern --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Discovery and exploration --- British.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Search and rescue operations --- History --- Franklin, John, --- Travel --- Terror (Ship) --- Erebus (Ship) --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Arctic regions --- Northwest Passage --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Rescue work --- Unified operations (Military science) --- Search dogs --- Air rescue service --- Air-sea rescue --- Franklin, Dzhon, --- H.M.S. Erebus --- HMS Erebus --- HMS Terror --- H.M.S. Terror --- Franklin Expedition --- nineteenth-century literature and cultural history --- history of exploration and the polar regions --- naval history --- visual culture --- ephemera